Milk
object · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
milk
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Milk sought as a material blessing of abundance for the household.
The gods have bestowed milk upon me;
Aphorisms
A dietary substance given or withheld in various disease states
It is a bad thing to give milk to persons having headache, and it is also bad to give it in fevers, and to persons whose hypochondria are swelled up, and troubled with borborygmi, and to thirsty persons;
Brahmabindūpaniṣad
Milk used as a simile, first for knowledge common to differently marked cows/doctrines, then as the medium concealing ghee/vijñāna.
Of cows of many colors the milk yet has [but] one color;
Like ghee hidden within milk, vijñāna (realized, discriminative knowledge) dwells in every single being;